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Oh, come on, HA, what’s with the boycott of Palin? This is getting ridiculous. I hadn’t heard Susana Martinez was testing the waters to run, or even thinking about it. So why leave Palin off? I can’t believe how both stubborn and obtuse you are regarding this.

Just put her on next time, for pete’s sake, and get it over with. Do it once even just to prove something to yourselves, but put her on there. Your willfulness in leaving her off is telling.

Yup, He wants an open movement of people from Mexico to the United States.
He is against the fence.
In State Tuition for illegal aliens. Not for citizens from other states. If you do not agree with him, you have no heart.
Path to citizenship.

“My hope is both extremes of the debate get left outside. Those that say, well let’s go round up those citizens and deport them, or those that say, well, let’s round them all up and make them citizens and give them amnesty. Both of those are the extremes. Somewhere in the middle is where we’re going to end up.”

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“If they want to be citizens of the United States, there’s the line right over there where it’s always been,” he said. “Go get in it. Go pay to appropriate dues to become a citizen of the United States.”

Oh, come on, HA, what’s with the boycott of Palin? This is getting ridiculous. I hadn’t heard Susana Martinez was testing the waters to run, or even thinking about it. So why leave Palin off? I can’t believe how both stubborn and obtuse you are regarding this.

Using that criteria, I’d say Palin isn’t any more likely to run than Martinez.

That having been said, I will agree it’s stupid to leave Palin off the list but include Mitt Romney and Ben Carson, two men who are almost certainly not going to run.

“My hope is both extremes of the debate get left outside. Those that say, well let’s go round up those citizens and deport them, or those that say, well, let’s round them all up and make them citizens and give them amnesty. Both of those are the extremes. Somewhere in the middle is where we’re going to end up.”

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“If they want to be citizens of the United States, there’s the line right over there where it’s always been,” he said. “Go get in it. Go pay to appropriate dues to become a citizen of the United States.”

How are those quotes reflective of open borders?
Secure our borders first. Then tackle that daunting problem.

Call me a racist as you please but I’ll be wary of dark-skinned politicians in the White House for a long time. Barry Soetoro and Herman Cain have heavily poisoned that well for me, and Condi Rice is no heavens’ gift, either.

Any governor will be fine with me. Jindal is boring, Perry is dumb, and Martinez has no national profile but I’ll cast a ballot for them with an easy heart. Rand Paul used to me my first-rank vote but he’s so busy sucking up to the Powers That Be, the bloom is off that rose. Ted Cruz is a dream candidate but it’s just not going to happen. So it’s Scott Walker now – stainless-less balls, blue collar appeal, and knows how to win and stick it to the enemy, and I doubt he’ll root for amnesty any more given the results of VA primaries. What’s not to like?

He’s not my first choice and has his share of heresies, but where’s Brian Sandoval? He’s about to roll up a big re-election win in Nevada, which makes him immediately more viable than a bunch of people on that list (Scarborough, Huckabee, really?)

I’ve done my last Hot Air data mining survey, oops, primary survey. The site ignores the immigration question and for some reason keeps including Morning Joe as a potential candidate, but omits Sarah Palin. Put Sarah as an option, what do they have to lose? If nobody votes for her, then Patrick can be vindicated and leave her off of future polls.

Sorry I missed this yesterday. I spent most of it with a friend in the VA emergency room. By the time I finally made it home after sitting in a variety of hard, uncomfortable waiting and treatment room chairs, all I wanted to do was feed the dogs, grab a glass of iced tea and collapse on the couch.

Feel free to shoot me down with facts if I’m wrong, Patrick, but it looks like you’re probably not getting many people to vote in it. Maybe if you ask people repeatedly to offer ideas about candidates or issues, you should maybe… include them in subsequent polls?

I wonder if the poll results will be a “Friday evening news dump” for HotAir?